Presidential Election of 1984 Change History! Try out the 1984 interactive map 1984 Election Facts Mondale's running mate, Geraldine A. Ferraro is first woman on a major party Presidential ticket Reagan received 525 Electoral Votes and over 54 million popular votes. The Electoral Vote total is a record that stands to this day Issues of the Day: Recession and Subsequent Recovery (start of bull market for stocks), Defense Spending Margin of Victory Map This map is shaded by how large the popular vote difference was between the two nominees. It is a way to view the relative competitiveness of each state. These maps are also available as a timeline for each election from 1972-2016 . X Content Display Issues A few people have reported problems viewing certain 270toWin election maps and/or polls. If you have an Ad Blocker in place, please disable it. Separately, you may not be able to view our maps in the new IE10 browser due to some changes Microsoft has made regarding the display of Flash content.

This issue will not be fixed prior to the election, so you may want to visit 270toWin using a different web browser. Sorry for any inconvenience. Copyright © 2004-2017 270towin.com All Rights Reserved United States presidential election of 1984 | United States government | Britannica.com United States presidential election of 1984 United States government election United States presidential election of 1984, American presidential election held on November 6, 1984, in which Republican Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term, defeating Democrat Walter Mondale , a former U.S. vice president. Reagan won 49 states en route to amassing 525 electoral votes to Mondale’s 13—one of the biggest landslides in U.S. election history. The election was also notable for being the first time a major party had a woman on its ticket— Geraldine Ferraro , Mondale’s running mate. Results of the American presidential election, 1984… Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The campaign During the primaries, Reagan faced no opposition and was easily renominated by the Republican Party .

On the Democratic side, however, the 1984 campaign was notable. Jesse Jackson , an eloquent African American preacher who had been a young activist in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1983. At the time, no one believed he would win either nomination or election, but his public stature guaranteed him equal opportunity to compete seriously for the nomination. The Democratic primaries were contested—in addition to Jackson—by one former governor (Reubin Askew of Florida), two former senators ( George McGovern of South Dakota and Mondale), and four incumbent senators (Alan Cranston of California , John Glenn of Ohio , Gary Hart of Colorado , and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina). The pre-primary odds makers had favoured Mondale, with Glenn considered the strongest challenger, but Glenn ran a lacklustre campaign and foundered early. So did most of the others, but Hart came in second in the Iowa caucuses and won the New Hampshire primary. Quick to spot what seemed to be a trend, the media all but wrote off Mondale. No longer the front-runner, Mondale abandoned his defensive stance.

Borrowing a slogan from a television commercial for the hamburger chain Wendy’s ("Where’s the beef?"), he found a way to deflate Hart’s pretensions as the candidate of "new ideas" and finally slogged his way to the nomination. Walter Mondale, 1984. United States presidential election of 1972 Mondale made history by choosing as his running mate Geraldine Ferraro —the first woman selected by a major political party for its presidential ticket. At the time, Ferraro was a three-term congresswoman from New York , and it was hoped that her nomination would galvanize the campaign. It did initially, but the Democratic ticket was derailed almost immediately by a monthlong controversy over the finances of Ferraro and her husband, a New York real estate operator. The Mondale-Ferraro ticket attempted, without success, to find an issue that would resonate with voters. Fairness between rich and poor, alleged misbehaviour by Reagan aides, and Reagan’s close ties with aggressive fundamentalist groups all failed to dent the approval ratings of the man supporters called "the great communicator" and enemies called "the Teflon president" because no charges ever stuck to him.

Perhaps worst for the Mondale campaign, however, was Mondale’s pledge at the Democratic convention in San Francisco , where he stated: By the end of my first term, I will reduce the Reagan budget deficit by two-thirds. Let’s tell the truth. It must be done, it must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won’t tell you. I just did. Geraldine Ferraro, 1984. © 1984 Dennis Brack/Black Star This pledge to raise taxes backfired, giving Reagan and the Republicans ammunition in their desire to paint the Democratic ticket as “tax-and-spend liberals.” A brief upward blip in Mondale’s fortunes came when, in the first of two nationally televised debates, Reagan appeared tired and confused. His inept performance brought into the open the hitherto unmentioned issue of Reagan’s age (73), and for a brief interval the Democrats took heart. By the second debate, however, the president was back in command. Mondale needed a major Reagan mistake, and it did not come. Indeed, at that second debate, on October 28, Reagan was asked about being the oldest president in U.S.

history and whether there was any doubt he could do the job. Reagan disarmingly responded, saying: I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience. Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent Laughter—including from Mondale—ensued. With that statement, age became a nonissue, and Democrats saw little hope of stopping the Reagan juggernaut . Apart from the debates, the president appeared only in controlled and euphoric settings, insulated from the press. His campaign capitalized on the new mood of national pride and self-congratulation that had reached a peak in the Los Angeles Olympic Games . The economic recovery helped, but interviewers and exit pollers found a preference for Reagan even among voters who disagreed with administration policies, because for them he represented leadership, patriotism, and optimism. U.S. Presidential Elections Reagan won virtually every demographic group except African Americans. His margin of victory over Mondale was nearly 17 million popular votes, the second largest in history; it was surpassed only by Richard Nixon ’s margin over McGovern in 1972.

His electoral landslide of 525–13 was second only to Franklin Roosevelt ’s 523–8 margin over Alf Landon in 1936. Mondale carried only the District of Columbia (three electoral votes) by a convincing margin. He won his home state of Minnesota by a scant 3,800 votes (less than 0.2 percent). Ronald Reagan, 1983. U.S. Department of Defense For the results of the previous election, see United States presidential election of 1980 . For the results of the subsequent election, see United States presidential election of 1988 . Results of the 1984 election The results of the 1984 U.S. presidential election are provided in the table. American presidential election, 1984 1984 United States Presidential Election (President John Glenn) | Alternative History | Fandom powered by Wikia 1984 United States Presidential Election (President John Glenn) 40,675pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising.

We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. ‹ 1980 United States presidential election, 1984 November 6, 1984 62.4% 37.6% Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Reagan/Bush (50), Blue denotes those won by Mondale/Ferraro (D.C.). President before election Ronald Reagan Republican The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981-1982. Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming only the second presidential candidate to do so after Richard Nixon's victory in the 1972 presidential election. Mondale's only electoral votes came from his home state of Minnesota which he won by fewer than 3,800 votes and the District of Columbia, which has always been considered a Democratic guarantee.

Reagan's 525 electoral votes (out of 538) is the highest total ever received by a presidential candidate. Mondale's 13 electoral votes is also the 2nd-least ever received by a second-place candidate, second only to Alf Landon's 8 in 1936. In the national popular vote, Reagan received 58.8% to Mondale's 40.6%. Contents Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1984 Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from California Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota Ben Fernandez, Republican National Hispanic Assembly Chairman from California Candidates gallery Primaries Ronald Reagan—the incumbent president—was the assured nominee for the Republican Party.

The popular vote from the Republican primaries was as follows: Ronald Reagan (inc.): 6,484,987 (98.78%) Unpledged delegates: 55,458 (0.85%) Harold Stassen: 12,749 (0.19%) Benjamin Fernandez: 202 (0.00%) Reagan was renominated by a vote of 2,233 (two delegates abstained). For the only time in American history, the vice presidential roll call was taken concurrently with the presidential roll call. Vice President George H. W. Bush was overwhelmingly renominated. This was the last time in the 20th century that the Vice Presidential candidate of either major party was nominated by roll call vote. The Balloting Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president and former U.S. senator from Minnesota John Glenn, U.S. senator from Ohio Jesse Jackson, reverend and civil rights activist from Illinois Gary Hart, U.S. senator from Colorado George McGovern, former U.S. senator from South Dakota Reubin Askew, former Governor of Florida Alan Cranston, U.S.

senator from California Ernest Hollings, U.S. senator from South Carolina Candidates gallery Primaries Only three Democratic candidates won any state primaries: Mondale, Hart, and Jackson. Initially, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, after a failed bid to win the 1980 Democratic nomination for president, was considered the de facto front-runner of the 1984 primary. But, after Kennedy ultimately declined to run, former Vice-President Mondale was then viewed as the favorite to win the Democratic nomination. Mondale had the largest number of party leaders supporting him, and he had raised more money than any other candidate. However, both Jackson and Hart emerged as surprising, and troublesome, opponents. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings' wit and experience, as well as his call for a budget freeze, won him some positive attention, but his relatively conservative record alienated liberal Democrats, and he was never really noticed in a field dominated by Walter Mondale, John Glenn and Gary Hart. Hollings dropped out two days after losing badly in New Hampshire, and endorsed Glenn a week later. His disdain for his competitors sometimes showed.

He notably referred to Mondale as a "lapdog" and to former Astronaut Glenn as "Sky King" who was "confused in his capsule." Jackson was the second African-American (after Shirley Chisholm) to mount a nationwide campaign for the presidency, and he was the first African-American candidate to be a serious contender. He got 3.5 million votes during the primaries, third behind Hart and Mondale. He won the primaries in Virginia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, and split Mississippi, where there were two separate contests for Democratic delegates. Through the primaries, Jackson helped confirm the black electorate's importance to the Democratic Party in the South at the time. During the campaign, however, Jackson made an off-the-cuff reference to Jews as "Hymies" and New York City as "Hymietown", for which he later apologized. Nonetheless, the remark was widely publicized, and derailed his campaign for the nomination. Jackson ended up winning 21% of the national primary vote but received only 8% of the delegates to the national convention, and he initially charged that his campaign was hurt by the same party rules that allowed Mondale to win.

He also poured scorn on Mondale, saying that Hubert Humphrey was the "last significant politician out of the St. Paul-Minneapolis" area. John Glenn of Ohio was a more serious threat to Mondale, and after winning several early primaries it looked as if he might take the nomination away from Mondale. Glenn criticized Mondale, comparing him to the McGovern of the 1972 Presidential Election. He emerged as a formidable candidate, winning the key New Hampshire, Ohio, and California primaries as well as several others, especially in the West and parts of the South. However, Glenn could not overcome Mondale's financial and organizational advantages, especially among labor union leaders in the Midwest and industrial Northeast. Glenn managed to also capture the imagination of the new generation on his proposed policy of reinvigorating NASA. His expansion included renewed missions to the Moon, a Lunar Outpost, and manned missions to Mars and Venus. While the response was positive to what was now called the “Glenn Initiative”, it did not give Glenn the support he had hoped. At a roundtable debate between the three remaining Democratic candidates moderated by Phil Donahue, Mondale and Glenn got in such a heated argument over the issue of U.S.

policy in Central America that Jackson had to tap his water glass on the table to help get them to stop. Mondale gradually pulled away from Glenn in the delegate count, but, as Time reported in late May, "Mondale ... has a sizable lead in total delegates ... because of his victories in the big industrial states, his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago.” After the final primary in California, on June 5, which Hart won, Mondale was short of the total delegates he needed to win the nomination. However, at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 16, Mondale received the overwhelming support of the unelected superdelegates from the party establishment, narrowly giving him the required majority to win the nomination, despite having lost the popular vote within the primaries to Glenn by a sizable margin. This race for the nomination was the closest in two generations, and it has been the most recent occasion that a major party presidential nomination has gone all the way to the convention.

After Mondale's loss to Reagan in the general election in November 1984, Glenn quickly emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic Party's 1988 presidential nomination, though he did not commit himself until ’86. Glenn would go on to defeat Reagan’s Vice President, George H. W. Bush in ’88. Endorsements Notable endorsements during the primaries included: Walter Mondale Lane Kirkland 1 When he made his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Mondale said: "Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Although Mondale intended to expose Reagan as hypocritical and position himself as the "honest" candidate, the choice of taxes as a discussion point likely damaged his electoral chances. Vice-Presidential nominee Mondale chose U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York as his running mate and she was confirmed by acclamation, making her the first woman nominated for that position by a major party. Aides later said that Mondale was determined to establish a precedent with his vice presidential candidate, considering San Francisco Mayor (Later U.S.

Senator) Dianne Feinstein and Governor of Kentucky Martha Layne Collins, who were also female; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African American; and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Hispanic, as other finalists for the nomination. Unsuccessful nomination candidate Jackson derided Mondale's vice-presidential screening process as a "P.R. parade of personalities", however he praised Mondale for his choice, having pledged, himself, to name a woman to the ticket in the event he was nominated. Others however preferred Senator Lloyd Bentsen because he would appeal to more conservative Southern voters. After the delegates had voted, Glenn was supposed to endorse Mondale, as requested by the Democratic National Committee. However, during his speech, instead of endorsing him, Glenn said, “I ask my supporters to do only one thing, vote for the man you think would run this country the best. Do base your decision on what they say, or what they do, but on their actions. If those actions represent what you believe in, then you’ve found your president.” Many believe that last quote was in fact an endorsement of incumbent President Reagan, but Glenn never actually campaigned for him during the election.

However, he has at the same time never directly answered the question when it is put to him. Ferraro, as a Catholic, came under fire from some members of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church for being pro-choice on abortion. Further controversy erupted over statements regarding the release of her husband John Zaccaro 's tax returns. Other parties David Bergland was the nominee of the Libertarian Party. His running mate was James A. Lewis. The Bergland-Lewis ticket appeared on 39 state ballots. The Communist Party USA ran Gus Hall and Angela Davis. General election Campaign Mondale ran a liberal campaign, supporting a nuclear freeze and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). He spoke against what he considered to be unfairness in Reagan's economic policies and the need to reduce federal budget deficits. At a campaign stop in Hammonton, New Jersey, Reagan said, "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts.

It rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire, New Jersey's Bruce Springsteen." The Reagan campaign briefly used “Born in the U.S.A.", a song criticizing the treatment of Vietnam War veterans (which they mistakenly thought was devoid of anti-war content), as a campaign song, without permission, until Springsteen, a lifelong Democrat, insisted that they stop. The Reagan campaign was very skilled at producing effective television advertising. Two of the more memorable ads it produced were commonly known as "Bear in the woods" and "Morning in America". By 1984, Reagan was the oldest president to have ever served, and there were many questions about his capacity to endure the grueling demands of the presidency, particularly after Reagan had a poor showing in his first debate with Mondale on October 7. He referred to having started going to church "here in Washington", although the debate was in Louisville, Kentucky, referred to military uniforms as "wardrobe," and admitted to being "confused," among other mistakes. However, in the next debate on October 21, Reagan effectively neutralized the issue by quipping, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign.

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." Results Reagan was re-elected following the November 6 election in an electoral and popular vote landslide, winning all 50 states. Reagan won a record 535 electoral votes total (of 538 possible), and received 62 percent of the popular vote. Mondale's 3 electoral college votes (The District of Columbia) marked the lowest total of any major Presidential candidate. Mondale's defeat was also the worst for any Democratic Party candidate in U.S. history in the Electoral College, though others, including George McGovern, John W. Davis, and James M. Cox, did worse in the popular vote. Psephologists pointed to "Reagan Democrats" — millions of Democrats who voted for Reagan. They characterized such Reagan Democrats as southern whites and northern blue collar workers who voted for Reagan because they credited him with the economic boom, saw Reagan as strong on national security issues, and perceived the Democrats as supporting the poor and minorities at the expense of the middle class.

As of 2008, the 1984 election was the last time that a Republican presidential candidate won the states of Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. Close states Margin of victory less than 5% Minnesota, 3.18% How Reagan hobbled the Democrats - US news - The Legacy of Ronald Reagan | NBC News How Reagan hobbled the Democrats Conservative captured the South, flipped deficit politics on its head Below: AP file President Jimmy Carter and his Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, shake hands before their Oct. 28, 1980 debate. By Tom Curry National affairs writer msnbc.com + - WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan and Reaganism were blows from which the Democratic Party has not fully recovered in the 24 years since his election. In the five presidential elections since Reagan’s 1980 victory, Democratic candidates have managed to win, on average, 45 percent of the popular vote. They have averaged 228 electoral votes (270 are needed to win the White House). This is not an encouraging historical trend for the Democratic Party. What was it that Reagan did to the Democrats?

In simplest terms, he beat them, in 1966, defeating California Gov. Pat Brown — and then he beat them again (the legendary boss of California's state Assembly, Jess Unruh, in 1970), and again (a sitting president, Jimmy Carter, in 1980) and again (former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984). He proved that genial conservatism can win by huge margins. The stylistic contrast between Reagan and his 1980 adversary was superficial, yet important: Carter: dour, dutiful, defensive, earnest to a fault. Reagan: chipper, optimistic, practiced in the art of the one liner: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” In their 1980 debate, Carter treated Reagan almost as a preposterous figure, ignorant of details of nuclear weapons policy, among other things. Carter’s attitude toward Reagan was a harbinger of Al Gore’s theatrical sighs and eye-rolling during his first debate with George W. Bush in 2000.

In Carter’s words during that 1980 face-off, Reagan was “extremely dangerous and belligerent” on nuclear weapons policy, “very dangerous” on Social Security, as well as “heartless” toward "working families" and guilty of “a very great insensitivity” toward poor people. Puzzling over Reagan Democrats In spite of such rhetoric, or perhaps partly because of it, Carter a week later suffered a crushing defeat and for the next 20 years Democratic strategists struggled to understand the phenomenon of the “Reagan Democrats.” No one had ever heard of “Hoover Democrats” or “Tom Dewey Democrats” or “Nixon Democrats” (although there was a “Democrats for Nixon” group headed by Nixon’s former Treasury Secretary John Connally). Most Democratic strategists and candidates believe that middle- and lower-income voters will ultimately vote for government policies that will provide them with health insurance and other benefits by redistributing income from the wealthy to those who aren’t. How did Reagan win a majority of such voters in 1980 and a bigger majority in 1984, even after he'd engaged in what critics called “union-busting” by firing the striking air traffic controllers?

One answer is that Reagan practiced “deficit jiu-jitsu” on Democrats. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Republicans had been the party of fiscal austerity, bemoaning federal budget deficits and the national debt. In his 1984 race against Mondale, Reagan flipped the party personas on their heads. Vowing to raise taxes, Mondale and Democrats took the old Republican role as the grim party, bewailing the deficit, even though in the 1960s Democratic leaders had been unconcerned about growing deficits. Reagan cheerfully promised economic growth and implied that deficits would not hurt in the long run. When Reagan left the White House, the deficit amounted to 2.8 percent of Gross Domestic Product, after having hit 6 percent of GDP in 1983. The economy grew out of the 1982 recession and by the end of Reagan’s presidency the unemployment rate was 5 percent, less than half what it was in 1982. Taking away the South Reagan also delivered a strategic electoral blow to the Democrats: He took away the South and the Democrats have never gotten it back.

Advertise In 1980, Reagan carried all the Southern and border states except for West Virginia and Carter’s native Georgia. Since then, only when Southerner Bill Clinton headed the ticket did Democrats win any Southern states; in 2000, Gore, himself from Tennessee, carried no Southern or border states. “In the South the Reagan realignment of the 1980s was a momentous achievement,” wrote political scientists Merle Black and Earl Black. “By transforming the region’s white electorate, Ronald Reagan’s presidency made possible the Republicans’ congressional breakthrough in the 1990s.” Their reference to the “white electorate” is deliberate: Reagan alienated many black voters by, among other actions, contending in 1982 that racially discriminatory private schools were entitled to tax-exempt status unless Congress specified otherwise. Part of the Reagan legacy is that nearly 60 percent of the House members from the South are now Republicans, a major reason why Republicans control the House. This year’s Democratic candidate, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, seemed to acknowledge last year that the South might be out of reach.

“Al Gore proved that you can get elected president of the United States without winning one Southern state — if he had simply won New Hampshire … or a number of other states," Kerry said. Moral clarity Finally what Reagan did to the Democrats was to prove that moral clarity and simplicity can be an electoral asset. He had a knack for provoking the Democrats with his unvarnished anti-communism: the Vietnam War, he said in August of 1980, had been "a noble cause" — a remark the New York Times predicted would cost him votes. The contra rebels working to overthrow the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua were, he said, "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." The foreign policy contrast persists today: the Democrats, the party of nuance; the Republicans, the party of bold, simple (Democrats would say “simplistic”) statements.

When asked in his debate with Reagan about using military force to counter Soviet expansion in Afghanistan, Carter said as president he'd learned “there are no simple answers to complicated questions.” Reagan did have a simple answer: He called the Soviet Union “the focus of evil in the modern world.” In Carter’s most memorable foreign policy statement, at Notre Dame University in June of 1977, he did not talk about the evil of Soviet totalitarianism. Advertise Instead he said he had a "hope" that he could “persuade the Soviet Union that one country cannot impose its system of society upon another.” He reframed Lincoln’s half-slave/half-free formula as an issue of some people having too much wealth and others not enough. “We know a peaceful world cannot long exist one-third rich and two-thirds hungry,” Carter said. He urged cooperation with “the developed Communist countries … in providing more effective aid” to the poor. 'Inordinate fear of communism' Carter assured his Notre Dame audience in 1977 that “we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism,” which had led the United States to ally with anti-communist dictators.

Reagan took the contrary view: Soviet communism was to be feared, more importantly, it had to be overcome. Facing a new enemy, Reagan’s Republican successor practices Reaganesque phrase-making: “America has made a decision about these terrorists: Instead of waiting for them to strike again in our midst, we will take this fight to the enemy.” How Kerry and the Democrats counter that rhetoric may well determine the outcome of the election this November. Largest Landslide Victories In US Presidential Election History - WorldAtlas.com Society Largest Landslide Victories In US Presidential Election History The 'Intra-War Era', including the Roaring Twenties and the worst of the Great Depression, saw 5 of the 10 largest margins of victory ever in US Presidential Elections. In 1920, James Cox (pictured) suffered the worst defeat in the popular vote in US Presidential history as the hands of Warren G. Harding. 10. Herbert Hoover defeats Al Smith, 1928 (17.41% margin) The 1928 Presidential Election ushered in a landslide victory for the Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover, who won by the large margin of 17.41% in the elections.

At that time, the Republicans were respected for their success in ushering in the economic boom in the country in the 1920’s. The Democrat candidate, Al Smith, on the other hand, suffered criticism for his anti-prohibitionist stance, and the legacy of corruption of Tammany Hall (a political machine that long dominated New York City politics) with which he was associated. Anti-Catholics also believed that if Smith came to power, the country would be dictated by the Catholic Church to which he belonged, and even be influenced by the Pope. Thus, people chose Hoover over Smith in the 1928 elections. Hoover even managed to achieve victory in Smith’s home state of New York. Smith won the electoral votes in only two New England states, however, home to a large section of Catholic voters, as well as a few traditionally Democratic states in the Southern United States. 9. Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover, 1932 (17.76% margin) During the term of the Republican President Hoover, the American economy had suffered a major setback known as the Great Depression. This was the primary cause that was said to have led to the landslide victory of Hoover's opponent, the Democrat candidate Franklin D.

Roosevelt. Roosevelt defeated the Republican candidate Herbert Hoover by a margin of 17.76% in the 1932 Presidential Elections. During the election, the American voters were faced with a tough choice. On one side was Hoover, with his apparently unsuccessful policies which, during his term in office, seemed to have accomplished little for the better. Then, on the other side, was Roosevelt, with his loosely defined and proposed 'New Deal' program. In his campaigns, Roosevelt promised to provide aid to farmers, implement government monitoring of private economic power, and introduce a balanced budget. While Roosevelt appeared confident with his words, Hoover remained grim and stern throughout the campaign. In the end, Roosevelt won the elections by receiving 57.3% of the votes in his favor, while Hoover received only 39.6% of the American popular votes. 8. Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay, 1832 (17.81% margin) The 1832 American Presidential election was unique, in that it was the first election in U.S. history where Presidential candidates were nominated by national nominating conventions.

The incumbent President Andrew Jackson received an overwhelming support from his own fellow Democrats, and was nominated from that party in a bid for reelection, while the Republicans nominated Henry Clay as their Presidential candidate. Others to run in the race were William Wirt of the Anti-Masonic Party and John Floyd of the Nullifier Party. The entire campaign was dominated by the issue of dealing with the Bank of the United States. The bank was highly unpopular among a large section of the American population, which considered the bank to be only a tool for the rich. While Jackson was completely determined to eliminate the bank after he came to power, and went on to veto the reauthorization of the bank shortly after being nominated, Clay decided to criticize Jackson on this issue. Clay based his campaign from Pennsylvania, where the bank was headquartered, and started making Jackson’s veto a major issue in the campaign. However, his efforts proved futile in the end, and he lost to Jackson in the 1832 elections by the large margin of 17.81%. 7.

Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale, 1984 (18.21% margin) The Presidential Election of the United States of America that was held on November 6, 1984, led to a major victory for the Republican presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan. With the win, Reagan was appointed for a second time to the prestigious office of the President of the United States of America. The Democrat candidate, Walter Mondale, was defeated in this election by a margin of 18.21%, a major landslide in U.S. election history. Another interesting fact about this election was that for the first time in the country’s history, a major party had a female on its ticket, as Mondale and the Democrats had decided to select Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. Even though Ferraro’s presence galvanized Mondale’s campaign at first, controversies over Ferraro and her husband's finances soon cropped up. This led to great criticism over Mondale’s choice of running mate. Another mistake made by Mondale was his pledge to raise taxes, which was highly disapproved of by the American society.

On the other side, though Reagan’s age became an issue, and one seen by some as compromising his suitability to be the American President, he continued to exude confidence and optimism, and won over the American people with his unique charisma and conservative platform. 6. Theodore Roosevelt defeats Alton Parker, 1904 (18.83% margin) Following the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, the late President's running mate in the election of 1900, Theodore Roosevelt, then aged 42, was appointed as the President. In the process, "Teddy" became the youngest United States President in history. He championed the ‘Square Deal’, a series of acts involving implementation of domestic policies that would promise the average American citizen fairness. This included ensuring pure food and drugs were available, and that railroads and other large industries were properly regulated. Roosevelt was also a great conservationist, and as such was a trailblazer in setting up national parks, monuments, and protected areas with which to protect the country’s vast natural resources.

It was not surprising, therefore, that Roosevelt managed to defeat the Democrat Party nominee, Alton Parker, in a landslide win in the presidential elections of 1904, when he came to office for a full term in his own right. 5. Lyndon Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater, 1964 (22.58% margin) In one of the most crushing Presidential election victories in U.S. history, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had been serving as the President of US.A. since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, defeated the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater, in the elections of 1964. Throughout the campaign, Goldwater criticized Johnson’s liberal domestic agenda, and defended his own stance regarding vetoing the landmark Civil Rights Act. He also threatened to use force to dismantle Castro’s Communist government regime in Cuba, and hinted at the possibility of using nuclear weapons against North Vietnam to achieve the objectives of his own country. Goldwater’s stern delivery and harsh policies failed to influence the American populace. The election ended in a landslide victory for Johnson who, by a staggering margin of 22.58% in the popular vote, now became the U.S.

President for a full term. 4. Richard Nixon defeats George McGovern, 1972 (23.15% margin) The United States Presidential Election of 1972 was held on November 7, and led to the victory of the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon, over the Democratic candidate, George McGovern, by a landslide. With a margin of 23.15%, this is the 4th largest margin of victory in U.S. Presidential election history. McGovern ran an anti-war campaign that was well appreciated by many, though his 'outsider' status, and the scandal surrounding his Vice Presidential Democrat nominee, Thomas Eagleton, contributed to his failure in winning the election. Nixon’s win was based on his emphasis on a sound economy, and his successes in handling the foreign affairs of the country efficiently. These included the establishment of better relations with China and ending America’s involvement in Vietnam, which were among the greatest positive highlights of Nixon's widely criticized political career. 3. Franklin Roosevelt defeats Alf Landon, 1936 (24.26% margin) On November 3, 1936, in a landslide win, incumbent President Franklin D.

Roosevelt was re-elected to the US Presidential office after defeating the Republican candidate, Alf Landon. President Roosevelt had first assumed office four years earlier at a time when the U.S.A. was going through the worst of an economic crisis commonly referred to as "the Great Depression". Roosevelt introduced a new policy called the ‘New Deal’ to handle this crisis. Though successful at first, the ‘New Deal’ was unable to introduce significant changes to recover the U.S. economy fully. This was the major issue that formed the basis of the campaign for the Republican opposition. However, Landon was no match for the forceful personality of Roosevelt, and, in the end, Roosevelt won over the votes of the people, with his leadership qualities, rather than his policies, likely giving him the necessary boost to do so. 2. Calvin Coolidge defeats John Davis, 1924 (25.22% margin) The 1924 American presidential election saw the second greatest landslide victory in the history of the United States, when President Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate in the elections, defeated John Davis, the Democratic candidate.

Coolidge had been the President for a short term, following the 1923 death of President Warren G. Harding. The short term served by Coolidge was largely peaceful and successful, characterized by an apparently booming economy in the country and no apparent crisis abroad. Thusly, Coolidge was already a favorite of the people when he stood up for Presidential election in 1924. Davis, on the other hand, was a little known former congressman and a conservative Democrat who was even shunned by a significant section of his own party, any of whom backed the Progressive candidate, M. LaFollette, instead. That said, the victory of Coolidge was expected to happen, and it did so in style. 1. Warren Harding defeats James Cox, 1920 (26.17% margin) The U.S. Presidential election of 1920 was influenced by the aftermath of World War I. The country was facing one of its most difficult times, and there was utter chaos within the country. The public were fuming with anger against the outgoing President, Woodrow Wilson, who had been viewed as being highly unsuccessful in handling the tense situations plaguing the country.

In the 1920 elections, the Democrats nominated a newspaper publisher, Governor James M. Cox, as their Presidential candidate, while the Republicans chose another newspaper publisher, Senator Warren G. Harding, to act as their own. Even though Cox did his best to outdo Harding, the latter completely ignored Cox in his campaigns, and instead focused almost completely on criticizing the policies of the incumbent Wilson. The public thus found faith and sympathy in Harding’s words, and voted wholeheartedly for this Republican candidate, setting up Harding for executive power by a large margin in the 1920 popular vote. Largest Popular Vote Victories In US Presidential Election History Rank Reagan Wins By a Landslide, Sweeping at Least 48 States - G.O.P. Gains Strength in House - NYTimes.com Reagan Wins By a Landslide, Sweeping at Least 48 States; G.O.P. Gains Strength in House By HOWELL RAINES Published: November 7, 1984 Ronald Wilson Reagan won a second term as President yesterday in an election that Republican leaders hailed as a sweeping personal triumph and a mandate for his policies. Mr.

Reagan secured clear landslide victories in both popular and electoral votes as he defeated Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic nominee, in at least 48 of the 50 states. However, it remained unclear whether the powerful tide of support for Mr. Reagan ran deeply enough to carry enough Republican Congressional candidates into office to secure the ''historic electoral realignment'' that the President asked the voters to deliver. Reagan Is Hailed With more than two-thirds of the popular vote counted, Mr. Reagan led Mr. Mondale by about 59 percent to 41 percent. The President waited until after midnight, Eastern time, to claim the election that continued his tenure as the oldest man to occupy the White House. Entering the ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to the strains of ''Hail to the Chief,'' Mr. Reagan received a tumultuous welcome from a crowd that chanted, ''Four more years.'' ''I think that's just been arranged,'' said Mr. Reagan with a grin. Policy Extension Planned He said he would use his mandate to extend the economic and military policies of his first term. But, as if answering criticisms made by Mr.

Mondale, he said he would also devote his second term to limiting nuclear weapons and to ''lifting the weak and nurturing the less fortunate.'' ''You know, so many people act as if this election means the end of something,'' Mr. Reagan concluded in an indirect reference to the fact that this was the last election night of his career. ''To each one of you I say, it's the beginning of everything,'' Mr. Reagan said. Then he stirred full-throated cheers by repeating an informal slogan of his campaign, ''You ain't seen nothing yet.'' Mondale Affirms Principles Mr. Mondale, looking somber and drained, conceded shortly after 11:20 P.M., Eastern time. After complimenting the President on his victory, Mr. Mondale affirmed his commitment to the principles he had championed in a long, grinding campaign. ''Let us continue to seek an America that is just and fair,'' Mr. Mondale said. ''Tonight especially I think of the poor, the unemployed, the elderly, the handicapped, the helpless and the sad, and they need us tonight. ''I'm at peace with the knowledge that I gave it everything I've got,'' the former Vice President concluded.

His running mate, Geraldine A. Ferraro, the first woman to run for the Vice Presidency on a major party ticket, conceded defeat shortly after Mr. Mondale did, saying that her losing candidacy had helped fight discrimination against women. Addressing a crowd at the New York Hilton Hotel, Mrs. Ferraro praised Mr. Mondale for selecting her, saying he had ''opened a door which will never be closed again.'' ''The days of discrimination are numbered,'' she said. ''American women will never again be second- class citizens.'' Mr. Reagan was leading everywhere except in Minnesota, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, giving him a strong chance of attaining one of the largest electoral vote totals in the nation's history. The Republicans also retained control of the Senate and made gains in the House of Representatives. A series of hard-fought contests for House seats emerged as the major focus of the battle joined by the parties in this election. Democratic Congressional leaders predicted that Mr. Reagan's big popular victory would not convert into the large gains that the Republicans needed to assure ''ideological control'' of the House and to pave the way for a long-term realignment of the power balance between the parties.

More Vote for Republicans Interviews with voters as they left the polls throughout the country indicated that more voters were casting their ballots for Republican Congressional candidates than for Democrats. The voter interviews by The New York Times/CBS News Poll also showed that Mr. Reagan and his running mate, Vice President Bush, were leading comfortably in Democratic strongholds in the Northeast and Middle West. The Republican leads over Mr. Mondale and Mrs. Ferraro were much larger in the Southern and Western states that had hardly been contested by the Democratic ticket. James A. Baker, 3d, the White House chief of staff, said that Mr. Reagan had apparently secured his second term with a victory of ''historic proportion.'' Edward J. Rollins, the President's campaign manager, said Mr. Reagan had secured a ''landslide victory.'' Mr. Baker said Mr. Reagan would use his mandate to push his conservative economic agenda, with additional cuts in Federal spending and ''an effort at historic tax simplification.'' As Mr. Reagan watched tallies of the vote on television, reporters asked him about the possibility of a summit meeting with the Soviet Union.

''Yes,'' he said, ''it's time for us to get together and talk about a great many things and try to clear the air and suspicions between us so we can get down to the business of reducing, particularly, nuclear weapons.'' 1 1984 Presidential Election 40.6% RONALD REAGAN WALTER MONDALE STATE TOTAL VOTES Republican Democrat Votes % EV Votes % EV Alabama 1,441,713 872,849 60.5 9 551,899 38.3 Alaska 207,605 138,377 66.7 3 62,007 29.9 Arizona 1,025,897 681,416 66.4 7 333,854 32.5 Arkansas 884,406 534,774 60.5 6 338,646 38.3 California 9,505,423 5,467,

009 57.5 47 3,922,519 41.3 Colorado 1,295,380 821,817 63.4 8 454,975 35.1 Connecticut 1,466,900 890,877 60.7 8 569,597 38.8 Delaware 254,572 152,190 59.8 3 101,656 39.9 Dist.

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211,288 29,009 13.7 180,408 85.4 3 Florida 4,180,051 2,730,350 65.3 21 1,448,816 34.7 Georgia 1,776,120 1,068,722 60.2 12 706,628 39.8 Hawaii 335,846 185,050 55.1 4 147,154 43.8 Idaho 411,144 297,523 72.4 4 108,510 26.4 Illinois 4,819,088 2,707,103 56.2 24 2,086,499 43.3 Indiana 2,233,069 1,377,

230 61.7 12 841,481 37.7 Iowa 1,319,805 703,088 53.3 8 605,620 45.9 Kansas 1,021,991 677,296 66.3 7 333,149 32.6 Kentucky 1,369,345 821,702 60.0 9 539,539 39.4 Louisiana 1,706,822 1,037,299 60.8 10 651,586 38.2 Maine 553,144 336,500 60.8 4 214,515 38.8 Maryland 1,675,873 879,918 52.5 10 787,935 

47.0 Massachusetts 2,559,453 1,310,936 51.2 13 1,239,606 48.4 Michigan 3,801,658 2,251,571 59.2 20 1,529,638 40.2 Minnesota 2,084,449 1,032,603 49.5 1,036,364 49.7 10 Mississippi 941,104 582,377 61.9 7 352,192 37.4 Missouri 2,122,783 1,274,188 60.0 11 848,583 40.0 Montana 384,377 232,450 60.5 4 146,742 38.2 Nebraska 65

2,090 460,054 70.6 5 187,866 28.8 Nevada 286,667 188,770 65.8 4 91,655 32.0 New Hampshire 389,066 267,051 68.6 4 120,395 30.9 New Jersey 3,217,862 1,933,630 60.1 16 1,261,323 39.2 New Mexico 514,370 307,101 59.7 5 201,769 39.2 New York 6,806,810 3,664,763 53.8 36 3,119,609 45.8 North Carolina 2,175,361 1,346,48

1 61.9 13 824,287 37.9 North Dakota 308,971 200,336 64.8 3 104,429 33.8 Ohio 4,547,619 2,678,560 58.9 23 1,825,440 40.1 Oklahoma 1,255,676 861,530 68.6 8 385,080 30.7 Oregon 1,226,527 685,700 55.9 7 536,479 43.7 Pennsylvania 4,844,903 2,584,323 53.3 25 2,228,131 46.0 Rhode Island 410,492 212,080 51.7 4 197,

106 48.0 South Carolina 968,529 615,539 63.6 8 344,459 35.6 South Dakota 317,867 200,267 63.0 3 116,113 36.5 Tennessee 1,711,994 990,212 57.8 11 711,714 41.6 Texas 5,397,571 3,433,428 63.6 29 1,949,276 36.1 Utah 629,656 469,105 74.5 5 155,369 24.7 Vermont 234,561 135,865 57.9 3 95,730 40.8 Virginia 2,146,635 1,3

37,078 62.3 12 796,250 37.1 Washington 1,883,910 1,051,670 55.8 10 807,352 42.9 West Virginia 735,742 405,483 55.1 6 328,125 44.6 Wisconsin 2,211,689 1,198,584 54.2 11 995,740 45.0 Wyoming 188,968 133,241 70.5 3 53,370 28.2 Totals 92,652,842 54,455,075 58.8 525 37,577,185 40.6 13 Election of 1984

Question: Which Democrat candidate did Ronald Reagan defeat in the 1984 US Presidential Election?
Answer: Walter Mondale